Pacific Northwest Canola Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822703468
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Tuscon, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 8082837013
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,528
- Expenses
- $122,681
- Assets
- $72,813
- Liabilities
- $157
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID BREWER (Vice President)
- BRENDAN SHERRY (Vice President)
- BRAIDY HADEN (President)
People named in this filing
- CLINT ANDERSON (Director)
- KAREN SOWERS (Executive Dir.)
- CHRISTOPHER RIGGERS (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Pacific Northwest Canola Association to grow the canola industry in the Pacific Northwest (ID, MT, OR, and WA) through education, advocacy, and marketing.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 PNWCA Program Services AccomplishmentsMembership: 40 Industry, 2 Agency, 75 canola growersProducer & Industry Education:-2025 PNWCA Canola Workshop-PNWCA/NPGA Canola & Pulse Workshop-Idaho-Oregon Grain & Oilseed Convention-Eight (8) winter and spring canola field toursAdvocating for a canola checkoff in MontanaAdvocating at the national level with USCA for matters directly impacting canola growers in the PNW, e.g. EPA Herbicide Strategy Program; science-based policies; seed oil misinformation; increased renewable fuel standard volumes from EPA; Agricultural Uniformity Labeling ActImplementing key winter canola insurance policy filing changes to increase efficiency for farmers and insurance agents. Successfully implementing changes to USDA-RMA canola planting dates to better fit the PNW. Participating in ID and WA Oilseed Commissions quarterly calls and providing input on research proposals.Submitting letters of support for university research grant proposals to improve canola production
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.